Causation Case List

Question 1

White (1910)

Answer 1

Cyanide, mother, heart attack

Held: not guilty of murder

Question 2

Jordan (1957)

Answer 2

Allergic to drug, died

C/A: conviction quashed (murder)

Question 3

Smith (1959)

Answer 3

2 soldiers, bayonet, wrong treatment

C/A: conviction quashed (murder)

Question 4

Roberts (1971)

Answer 4

Jumped, car, sexual advances, injured

C/A: conviction quashed (actual bodily harm)

Question 5

Blaue (1975)

Answer 5

Jehovah’s Witness, stabbed

C/A: conviction (guilty of manslaughter)

Question 6

Malcherek and steel (1981)

Answer 6

Life support, break the chain of causation

C/A: still liable

Question 7

Pagett (1983)

Answer 7

Human shield, pregnant, shot

Held: guilty of manslughter

Question 8

Cheshire (1991)

Answer 8

Fish + chip shop, tracheotomy, complications

C/A: conviction upheld (murder)

Question 9

Williams and Davis (1992)

Answer 9

Threatened, jumped, car

C/A: conviction quashed (manslaughter)

Question 10

Dear (1996)

Answer 10

Slashed, abuse, wounds, father

C/A: guilty (murder)

Question 11

Corbett (1996)

Answer 11

Punched, ran, oncoming car

C/A: conviction quashed

Question 12

Marjoram (2000)

Answer 12

Gang, door, window, jumped

C/A: conviction quashed

Question 13

Merchant v Muntz (2004)

Answer 13

High speed, motorcycle, tractor

C/A: the driver was not morally responsible

Question 14

Kennedy (2007)

Answer 14

Heroin syringe, injected

C/A: conviction quashed (manslaughter)